Sports
- Bill Wright (catcher), American baseball catcher for the Washington Nationals in 1887
- Bill Wright (coach), Tennessee Volunteers baseball head coach 1963−1981
- Bill Wright (outfielder) (born 1914), American baseball outfielder in the Negro leagues
- Will Wright (cyclist) (born 1973), Welsh cyclist
- William Wright (cricketer) (1909–1988), English cricketer
- William Wright (footballer) (born 1900), footballer for Exeter City and Huddersfield Town
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)